Lanthanide and Transition Metal Coordination Polymers via Hydrothermal Reaction

Studies on the syntheses, structures and properties of lanthanide-transition metal complexes are of current great interest, because they can provide good models for investigation of the nature of magnetic exchange interaction between 3d and 41metal ions in the magnetic materials containing rare earth metals. Many of such studies were focused on discrete complexes which were synthesized from the conventional self-assembly reactions in solution. Although several infinite lanthanide-transition metal complexes containing organic ligands have been obtained by conventional solution synthetic method, the polymeric complexes have been poorly explored. Recently we try to use organic ligands for designing magnetic complexes comprising lanthanide and transition metal ions, especially Gd-Cu, Gd-Zn and Gd-Ag couple,with infinite structures, and hope to provide useful messages for the modeling of the magnetic exchange in magnetic materials. Herein reported are a series of lanthanide and transition metal polymeric complexes{Gd₂M₃(pydc)₆(H₂O)₁₂}·4H₂O]_n and{Gd₄M₂(pydc)₈(H₂O)₁₂}·4H₂O]_n (M=Cu, Ag,Zn) with 1D chain and 3D wave-like structure, which were prepared from the hydrothermal reactions of Gd₂O₃, pyridine-2,5-dicarboxylic acid (H₂pydc) and Zn(OAc)₂ or MO, respectively.